Small Portions Served up by the Jott Dogg

What’s that up there in the site tagline about? ‘Jott Dog’ — shurly ‘Jackdaw’?

That’s me: Jackdaw Jackdaw, bird with a double-barrelled surname (or double-barrelled first name, take your pick), and more degrees and honours than you can shake a schtick at.

This is my website, where I shall from time to time post poems and prose scraps, all of them written by and collected from Alan Reynolds, a groundling who fancies himself an ‘earth tourist’ but who is actually rooted next to my favourite tree near the harbour.

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He had thought a possum roast would ease his hunger. ‘It would have,’ said the jackdaw, ‘were you younger and in a land with possums, traps, and fires.’ He looked out where the edge of night expires. He drank water ? and pretended it was wine ? He drank whiskey ? and pretended it was(…)

The fuzzy wuzzy caterpillar’s teacher was a jackdaw, a relationship to tax both species’ patience, given neither creature served the other for protection or as snacks. The worm mumbled something muffled by the bleacher it hid under. ‘What,’ the bird said, ‘is that you ask? You are fuzzy and inept and not that dear. You(…)

‘One mess,’ the jackdaw ponders. ‘Then two mice? And the plural of die, you say, one writes as dice? No wonder humans cavil and complain about such nonessentials as who’ll reign while staying blind to climates that they warm so much that soon it’s roaches that will swarm where once were many species, lots of(…)

Me: ‘The homunculus is at home in poems and comments that are twistier than brain crevices, foldier than proteins, more la-di-da than Falange campaign ribbons…’ Jackdaw Gilbert flies down, hovers: ‘CAW!’ Me: ‘Thanks. I needed that. I was getting carried away there thinking about the TED Talk, “WANT OTHERS TO LISTEN TO YOU? 4 THINGS(…)

While the rest of his ilk are contentedly flocking together he looks up new words in a lexicon left on a table. He blinks at ‘quadratics’. He bristles at ‘birds of a feather’. He’s amused by ‘Icarus’ and caws ‘European’ a fable. He fancies he’s painting, or building a boat, or a castle. He pretends(…)